A new public service announcement makes a point that federal leaders have largely overlooked: Asian Americans are facing a surge of harassment linked to fears about the coronavirus pandemic. The…
Eric Owens, as Porgy, in “Porgy and Bess,” in New York, Sept. 12, 2019. “The opera opened the Metropolitan Opera’s most recent season, featured an almost exclusively Black cast but…
David Blight has been a voice of reason on this whole monument debate. In a piecepublished yesterday at The New York Times, he offers Joe Biden some historical advice. He suggests that Biden should establish…
The nineteenth-century French historian and orientalist Ernest Renan once observed that forgetfulness and historical error are crucial elements in the creation of a nation. To be sure, that observation has…
ISIS, Islamist terrorists and the threat of Jihad have obscured the genocidal tragedy Bosnian Muslims sufferered at the hands of the Serbs. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the…
Rep. John Lewis battled tirelessly for civil rights inspired by a faith that humanity yearns to do what’s right, former President Barack Obama wrote in a moving tribute to his friend on…
A recent string of antisemitic incidents in Australia’s education sector has caused Vic Alhadeff, CEO of New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD), to describe the situation as a “matter of…
We, the Jewish people, still suffering from open wounds of the Holocaust, could have done more to draw the world’s attention to what happened at Srebrenica. When we say “Never…
This article was published in German in Jüdische Allgemeine on July 9, 2020 By Gila Baumoehl, Member of the WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps When the bus passed Srebrenica, a Bosnian-Serb…
This article was published in Bosnian and in English on Bosnia and Herzegovinia's N1, on 1 July 2020 On 9 December 1948, the United Nations adopted its Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime…